All over the world people are waiting for a vaccine against corona.
Researchers now believe that the vaccine works differently in women and men.
The first
Corona
*
vaccine
should soon be available in
Germany
.
Experts
are of the opinion that the
Corona
-
vaccination
in
women
is more effective than in
men
.
Different factors
could play a role.
Kassel - The first
corona vaccine
from
BioNTech should be available
in Germany in
just
a few weeks
.
Risk groups and medical staff should first be
vaccinated
against the
coronavirus
.
Little by little, the rest of
Germany's
population will
follow suit and receive a
vaccination
.
However, some scientists believe that the vaccine is much more effective in women than in men.
The corona vaccination is probably "more effective" for women
Jean-Daniel Leliévre, Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Henri Mondor Hospital near
Paris
, told the French newspaper La Dépêche du Midi that the "
Covid-19
vaccines are likely to be more effective in women".
In addition, scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine have found that men have a weaker immune system than women.
Accordingly, women are also better
protected
against
corona infections
.
The number of Covid-19 deaths also confirms this assumption.
As the
Robert Koch Institute
reports, two thirds more men than women die in connection with the
coronavirus
- worldwide.
The reason for this is a simple one, but we have no control over it.
Also with regard to a corona vaccination for men and women
could that play a role.
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Europe is waiting for the approval of a corona vaccine (symbol picture).
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Women should be able to process corona vaccination better - are X chromosomes responsible?
As Lelièvre goes on to explain, there are many
genes responsible
for
immunity
on the X chromosome, of which men only have one and women have two.
Antibodies
should accordingly be broken down more quickly.
Together with researchers from the
Strasbourg
Hospital
and the Pasteur Institute, one of the leading basic centers for biology and medicine based in
Paris
, the
scientist was able to
find out that the
corona vaccination
would also work better in women than in men.
Regardless of Corona: A vaccination often works better for women than for men
The fact that a vaccine works
better
in
women
than in men is nothing new: “It
is known that a
great many
vaccines
are more effective in women,” says Lelièvre.
Samira Fafi-Kremer, head of the Strasbourg Institute for Virology, also confirms this and expresses the idea that there could also be a hormonal explanation: "
Estrogen
may play a role here".
As a man, you should
n't worry too much about
the
corona vaccination
, especially since the
BioNTech
vaccine,
which will probably soon be used in
Germany
, was
tested for its effectiveness on men and women at the same time.
(Nail Akkoyun)
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